Exploring Unrelated Ideas

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A lot of these things are fractal. It's not a zero sum game where the fields get exploited and then there's nothing to do. There's always something being new, some new frontier to explore. And if you look back in history, the major innovations came from people outside a given field. So it wasn't really someone immersed or quote unquote experts in that field. They're people from outside the given field who kind of have a different view.

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What is a mental model? What are "the three buckets"? How can Galilean relativity and alloying apply to non-science parts of life? What is the goal-gradient hypothesis? Why is it useful to know about signalling, especially in a social context? How can the concept of marginal safety apply outside of investing? More generally, why should people learn about mental models?

Blas Moros is writer, thinker, and entrepreneur. He's the CEO of Frontier and the founder of Latticework. Find more about him at blas.com, or follow him on Twitter at @blasmoros.

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